Entry Word: traitor

Function: noun

Meaning: one who betrays a trust or an allegiance <accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products>

Synonyms apostate, betrayer, double-crosser, quisling, recreant, turncoat

Related Words collaborationist, collaborator, subversive; conspirator, intriguer, plotter, schemer; defector, deserter, renegade; blabbermouth, gossip, gossiper, informant, informer, rat, snitcher, talebearer, talker, tattler, tattletale